Note of appreciation After months of wrangling with the Department of Transportation over a permit for one of our trucks, I contacted MLA Arno Doerksen to ask for help through the DOT maze. Two days after writing a letter to Arno and copying it to the DOT office in question and a few phone calls by Arno and his staff, our phone finally started ringing. Within 10 days we had our permit in hand as the confusing haze of our request seemingly disappeared. Full Story > |
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The great disconnect There are obvious conflicts between Ed Stelmach and his cabinet colleagues as well as a penchant for poor Ed to publically rebuke his own Ministers. Minister of Finance, Ted Morton, refused to rule out a sales tax in discussions with reporters, surrounding the announcement of a record $4.8 billion deficit forecast for the current year. He would merely indicate that “for the time being” there were no plans. Full Story > |
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